I'm prone to a specific, and comedic, speech error. Frequently, when I've got a word with two synonyms, I'll combine them into a nonsense word, or at least an irrelevant word--kind of like a spoonerism, where you reverse the first sounds of a word (a la Zummy Gummy from Gummy bears, who would "spast a kell" instead of "casting a spell."), except it's a short circuit in picking between two words. The one I do the most often is combining "might" and "may" into "mate," but it happens with other, more complex words, too.

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Off the top of my head, I can't remember, but I know that there is a word for this. I'll loook it up for you when I get home. It's a type of aphasia in which your brain doesn't pick between multiple words before your mouth starts making noise, and is closely related to the reason that I'll occasionally say completely messed up stuff when I think I'm saying one word and something totally unrelated is actually coming out.

I’m just trying to go through life without looking stupid. It’s not working out too well. Sometimes you’ll say the right thing but at the wrong time and feel stupid. Something like: “You, too!” I was getting out of a cab at the airport and the driver goes, “Hey…Have a nice flight!”

I never learn. Like a waitress will bring my meal. “Hey, enjoy your meal.”

“You, too. But you don’t have one, do ya? I’m a dufus. If you do eat enjoy it when you eat it if you have a break or something, later. If you get an opportunity.” That’s all I’m trying to say. That’s all that I’m driving at. Really…if you think about it. That’s all. I don’t know what I’m saying.

Do you ever start to say something and in the middle of what you’re saying you decide to say something else completely? There’s already words out there. These friends were leaving the other day and I started to say “Hey, take care,” and I decided to say “Good luck” instead like half way through, so it came out neither.

“See you later, Brian.”

“Take…luck! Take luck and care. Take care of the luck. Good luck taking care of the luck that you might have…if you have luck, take it, care for it. TAKE LUCK CARE OF IN IT WHEN YOU TAKE LUCK CARE OF IN IT…[continues to yell nonsense words – lots of ‘em].” You’re sure to see them again.

Spoonerism isn't precisely the same. Spoonerism is the reversal of initial word-sounds, but it's in the same family (a sort of metathesis of the word). Very similer idea, though--and I do spoonerisms, too, not as often, though.

I pigeonholed a few linguistics-geek friends after we left your place last night, and all agreed that if you were doing this on purpose, linguists would call it a nonce blend. None were sure, though, what a cognitive psychologist would call the fundamental error that's happening in the brain, of which the blend is just the symptom.